So I've been looking for some good Australian underground metal recently, but I can't really find that much. I've looked at a few bands like Ruins, Darkrealm but I can barely find anything. Are there any releases that you'd classify as a 'gem' or any important records from the Australian underground?

There are many, many gems that can be found in the Australian circuit, it just depends on how hard you're looking for them.

Nazxul - TotemThis is the definitive Australian black metal album. All of the glories of the second wave of black metal can be found in here, including the predominant melodies of Emperor, and so geographically distant from Norway.

Sadistik Exekution - The MagusRecorded in 1986, this would have been the one of the first death metal albums released if not for the five-year delay in its release. Even nowadays, it's some of the most frenzied, fastest, most aggressive death metal that's around. A must-listen for any self-proclaimed Australian metal fan.

Nocturnal Graves - Satan's CrossEven though it's from recent times, I would call this a modern classic. Even though the blackened thrash found here is aggressive and 'full' sounding due to the excellent production, you can't help but say that the riffs are catchy as hell!

Mournful Congregation - The Monad of CreationA must have for any doom metal fan. Crushing and slow funeral doom it may be, the intricate guitar melodies that play throughout the record evokes feelings of sadness but do it so that it's beautiful. No, I will never stop recommending this album.

Austere - To Lay Like Old AshesOnly two years old, this album is acclaimed in the genre of depressive black metal for its use of simplistic riffs and clean production.

You should also look into Portal if you're into extremely weird, experimental death metal but I know that people will start arguing over them. But yeah, good luck getting into Australian metal, mate. There's certainly a lot that the country can provide but like I said before, only if you look hard enough.

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Zodijackyl wrote:

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Well yeah I'm a huge noob when it comes to these scenes but a lot of the stuff I've founnd online, I already knew about... What I was looking for was proper underground stuff but I guess I had no idea where to look really, so thanks for the namedropping

old school death metal with a sick atmosphere. no technical wank going on here. def worth checking out

Yeah, forgot about those guys, great stuff - and they were stellar live too! Going to add Hellbringer to this growing list, really solid Thrash. Keep on digging OP, really digging. This site will also help you out a lot...

old school death metal with a sick atmosphere. no technical wank going on here. def worth checking out

Yeah, forgot about those guys, great stuff - and they were stellar live too! Going to add Hellbringer to this growing list, really solid Thrash. Keep on digging OP, really digging. This site will also help you out a lot...

Yeah thanks a lot guys, my first thought when I gave up on Google was "Hey, the Metal Archives forum knows everything"...

Well I suppose that given that I'm doing my best right now to be involved in getting the Adelaide scene up and running from the ruining of all this post-hardcore bullshit, now would be a good time to plut some Adelaide bands on here, mainly younger ones too, including my band.

Optical Delusion - This one is my band and basically we haven't shyed away from anything we've done everything from groovey riffs, to mellow instrumentals, to punk covers, to death metal, basically hoping to be the best and to every corner of the metal world. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Optical-Delusion/194787187209841

anyway, those are the bands that my band play with a lot, there a lot of others though, Truth Corroded are cool and so are Double Dragon, and I would also REALLY suggest having a look at the bands "gorlapse" and "blood covered shovel" great and also a lot of fun death metal bands that are more about having a good time than taking it too seriously, think shaun of the dead,

anyways, thats my 2 cents in, I strongly advise checking them all out (definitely my band at least haha) and have fun bangin along to all of these bands tunes

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DestruicaoMetalica wrote:

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there is 2 new albums coming out that sound like they have the potential to become gems beyond terror beyond grace's album nadirand erebus enthroned's album night black angel even if it is a horrible album name i heard its amazing(its kinda already out)

also ne obliviscaris's debut is highly anticipated while no one has heard any songs from that either its ment to be really goodalso if you like anything sludgeish check out space bong, also Adrift for days is very good, amazing vocalist imoeven the most recent stuff by the red shore is decent tech death its very good imo just a bit too repetitive this is an example of their new stuffhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9en1plZNKI

and aeons of horus are good EDIT: should have read the entire thread before suggesting erebus enthroned

oh and i have seen Spire live, they are up there with portal in terms of a show, they put on a hell of a show one of the best i have ever seen and i have seen about 100 bands live

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I own this really obscure split CD called 'Bound in Blasphemy' with two Australian bands: Dark Dominion and Secratain. Now, the Secratain half is fairly worthless, but Dark Dominion offers a few very unique occult black metal songs with a good atmosphere and quite some acoustic influences.

The release is worth checking out, at least, although I can't even find one song on YouTube and I don't know whether the release is easy to obtain.

Mhorgl from Perth are excellent. They put on a killer live show and their new album ain't half bad. Black metal's not really my thing though.

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Might as well namedrop Shrapnel. More of the same ace Aussie black/thrash. I swaer if you just clicked the links on the members pages for half these bands you'd be able to find fuckloads of them in pretty much no time.

I own this really obscure split CD called 'Bound in Blasphemy' with two Australian bands: Dark Dominion and Secratain. Now, the Secratain half is fairly worthless, but Dark Dominion offers a few very unique occult black metal songs with a good atmosphere and quite some acoustic influences.

The release is worth checking out, at least, although I can't even find one song on YouTube and I don't know whether the release is easy to obtain.

Yeah, I really dig Dark Dominion's input on that too. Too bad that's all they ever did though.

Australia is mostly known for its black/death/thrash mixups but there's a fair amount of good doom out there, mostly in the sludge/stoner side. Prisonbitch, Space Bong, the aforementioned Clagg, Agonhymn, Adrift For Days, Hydromedusa, Pod People and such. Iron Worzel might join that list if they ever get off their arses and record shit.

@plasticpope: If you want to try and reclaim Adelaide from the metalcore/post-hardcore stuff, it might not be such a good idea to associate yourself with Truth Corroded/Double Dragon. Truth Inc is responsible for a lot of the bullshit that goes on in the Adelaide scene. Nice enough blokes but they tend to monopolise support slots and stack shows with their -core signings.

Australia is mostly known for its black/death/thrash mixups but there's a fair amount of good doom out there, mostly in the sludge/stoner side. Prisonbitch, Space Bong, the aforementioned Clagg, Agonhymn, Adrift For Days, Hydromedusa, Pod People and such. Iron Worzel might join that list if they ever get off their arses and record shit.

@plasticpope: If you want to try and reclaim Adelaide from the metalcore/post-hardcore stuff, it might not be such a good idea to associate yourself with Truth Corroded/Double Dragon. Truth Inc is responsible for a lot of the bullshit that goes on in the Adelaide scene. Nice enough blokes but they tend to monopolise support slots and stack shows with their -core signings.

really love Adrift for days, A million dead birds laughing, beyond terror beyond grace(their 2nd album is good but their third album is looking amazing from the album preview, i am a bit obsessed with that atm), like Captain Cleanoff too, there are so many good australian bands out there

also speaking of beyond terror beyond grace i dont think dining in tuscany(their old singers new band) is very good too

also i like truth corroded, their new album is pretty good i heard they do get way too many support slots though

EDIT: holy shit no one mentioned stargazer, their most recent album is amazing, pretty soft compared to the rest of the stuff but it is extremely relaxing and well made

I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned Mortal Sin. OK, they were signed to a major label for a while back in the 80s when every major label wanted a thrash band of their own, but I can imagine that they were a major influence for loads of other aussie bands.